GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	3 

SENATE BILL 587
Education/Higher Education Committee Substitute Adopted 4/21/97
Third Edition Engrossed 4/23/97

Short Title:  School Personnel/Classroom Experience. 	(Public)

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April 1, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO GIVE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WHO DO NOT HAVE DAILY INSTRUCTIONAL CONTACT WITH STUDENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(18a)	To Make Rules Requiring Certain Employees to Serve as a Teacher. – In order to improve employees' awareness of classroom climate and to enhance school discipline, local boards of education shall require each professional public school employee who does not have daily instructional contact with students to serve as a teacher in the classroom for the equivalent of at least two days each school year.  The State Board of Education shall adopt a policy providing that the time spent as a teacher is an activity that earns renewal credit.  The State Board of Education shall determine the amount of renewal credit for this activity and that amount shall be a part of the total number of required units for certificate renewal."
Section 2.  The Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by October 15, 1998, on the extent to which University faculty members who teach instructional methods to students enrolled in schools of education are also involved with the public schools.  The Board of Governors may include the information required under this section in any other related report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 1997-98 school year.